Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.
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My deepest fear about doing TV, especially about doing a network comedy, was what if it felt too surface-y? What if it felt too jokey?
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You can't let fear grip you. You have to step over that threshold. Good, law-abiding citizens can no longer stand by and let the carnage continue.
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This brings us to the question was Jesus sleeping?
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
